Means for raising journal-boxes.



c. B. HATHAWAY & c. B. ELLIOTT.

MEANS FOR RAISING JOURNAL BOXES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8.1916.

1,223,046. Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

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CHARLES B. I-IATI-IAWAY AND GLAUD B. ELLIOTT, 0F I-IEMPSTEAD, TEXAS.

MEANS FOR RAISING JOURNAI-BOXES.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

Application filed June 8, 1916. Serial No. 102,460.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES E. HATH- AWAY and CLAUD B. ELLIOTT, citizens of the United States, residing at Hempstead, in the county of Waller and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Means for Raising J ournal-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention pertains to journal boxes and the like, and contemplates the provision of simple, inexpensive and easily operated means through the medium of which the journal box of a car may be quickly raised on its complementary journal, with the expenditure of but little effort, and for the renewing of the brasses or for any other purpose.

Other advantageous features of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a view illustrating one mode of carrying out our invention.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the hanger bolt on which the journal box is raised and by which the journal and wheel are pressed or crowded downwardly.

Fig. 3 is a detail elevation of a journal having a boss at its ends.

Figs. e and 5 are views of modifications hereinafter specifically referred to.

In furtherance of our invention as shown in Fig. 1, the ournal box 1 is provided in its -bottom with a vertically-disposed opening Said hanger bolt also has an apertured head 6, constructed and arranged to receive and bear downwardly on the pin 3, and mounted on the shank of the hanger bolt and disposed under the'box 1 is a nut 7 With the parts arranged as shown in Fig.

1, it will be manifest that when a long wrench is applied to the nut 7 and said nut is turned in proper direction, the box 1 will be raised and at the same time thejournal and copies of this patent may be obtained for the wheel thereof will be held against upward movement. While the box is raised the same may be supplied with new brass, and then by reversing the rotation of the nut 7, the box may be lowered to normal position, after which the pin 3, hanger bolt and nut 7 may be removed from the box. V

In Fig. 3 a boss 8 is provided on the journal for the engagement of the eye in the hanger bolt.

In Figs. 4 and 5, the hanger bolt 5 is headed'and flanged at 6 to rest on the flange usually provided on journals.

It will be gathered from' the foregoing that our novel apparatus is simple, inexpensive and easily applied, and that a single person through a wrench is enabled to quickly and easily raise the journal box notwithstanding the car may be heavily loaded.

disposed below the box; said nut being adapted to be turned through the medium of a wrench or the like.

2. The combination of a journal, a journal box containing the journal and having a vertical opening in its bottom wall, a hanger boltodisposed in front of the journal end and having a threaded portion depending through said opening, and a nut mounted on the threaded portion of the bolt, below the box;jthe said journal and the bolt being provided with cooperating appurtenances for suspending the bolt from the journal with the bolt in the relative position defined.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- CHARLES B.'HATHAWAY. CLAUD B. ELLIOTT. Witnesses:

' KEET MODADE,

C. H. KLUNA.

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